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The killings happened in different boroughs, but both raised questions about the violent behavior of some New York teen-agers. In the Bronx, a 13-year-old was arrested for stabbing his 12-year-old playmate; friends said the suspect had often been teased because of his size.
Jonathan Dimbleby would like to make it clear that "The Prince of Wales," his exhaustive account of the life and times of the heir to the British throne, is not just another titillating treatise on the peccadilloes and sex lives of the royal family. "The coverage has been frustrating," Mr. Dimbleby said in an interview recently at his home here, speaking of the focus of the popular press on such racy details as Charles's confession that, yes, he did cheat on his wife. "In a way, I'd have liked the book to have been judged more as a book than as an event."
The treasurer of Orange County, Calif., investing $8 billion of money from the county and local government agencies, did not buy any securities that have defaulted. Nor are any of them likely to do so. Virtually every security he bought will be worth, at maturity, about what he paid. So how did the treasurer, Robert L. Citron, manage to lose $1.5 billion of that money, as the county acknowledged last week?
The Giants lose seven straight games and the playoff picture looks like something finger-painted by a 7-year-old. Suddenly, after three straight victories, including today's 16-13 triumph over a Cleveland Browns team that is considered a Super Bowl contender, that picture is beginning to crystallize into something that's actually palpable. And the Giants can thank their defense, their quarterback and Vinny Testaverde. There is a saying in the National Football League: Any time Testaverde is at quarterback, the opposing team has a chance to win. He may have been playing well leading up this game, as the Browns cruised to a 9-3 record, but for most of this afternoon he looked like the Testaverde of old -- the Tampa Bay Testaverde who usually appears clueless.
Computer and Software stores are the fastest growing retailers in the region, according to a census of retail trade recently released by the Commerce Department. Sales at these businesses doubled, and in New Jersey's case, tripled. from 1987 to 1992. Overall, retail sales in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut increased during the same period but not as sharply as in the nation as a whole. Nationwide, retail sales rose 27 percent over the five-year period. sales at miscellaneous general stores more than doubled in both New Jersey and Connecticut. This retail category includes warehouse clubs: stores that sell merchandise in bulk at cut-rate prices to customers who pay a membership fee.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1994, covering December 5, 1994.
Eagles
Boyz II Men
Nirvana
Method Man
The Offspring
1994Ondrej Duda, Slovak footballer[†]
Ondrej Duda is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Hellas Verona and the Slovakia national team.
1994Semi Ojeleye, American basketball player[†]
Jesusemilore Talodabijesu "Semi" Ojeleye is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played college basketball for both Duke University and Southern Methodist University.
1994Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (born 1910)[†]
Harry Horner was a Czech-born American art director who made a successful career in Hollywood as an Oscar-winning art director and as a feature film and television director. He was the father of Academy Award-winning film composer James Horner.
1994The Budapest Memorandum is signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary.[†]
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises four substantially identical political agreements signed at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The four memoranda were originally signed by four nuclear powers: Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. France and China gave individual assurances in separate documents.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]